![]() ![]() The Breaking Point rights that wrong, even though the taut screenplay by Ranald MacDougall ( Mildred Pierce) also at times strays from its source. That honor goes to the largely and criminally overlooked The Breaking Point, made just six years later by Casablanca director Michael Curtiz, who takes a far more intimate approach and transforms the tension-filled tale into a gripping film noir.Īside from the title and main character’s name, there’s very little Hemingway in Hawks’ film, which instead focuses on the Bogart-Bacall chemistry and World War II propaganda. Yet despite its notoriety (the movie launched the Bogart-Bacall partnership on screen and off), Howard Hawks’ 1944 film isn’t the best adaptation of what some have called Ernest Hemingway’s worst novel. Think of To Have and Have Not and images of a slinky, smoldering Lauren Bacall purring the now immortal come-on, “You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow,” to a nonplussed Humphrey Bogart immediately come to mind. ![]()
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